Infrastructure Management Executive Short Course
Technical Skills Training to Support
Decentralization and Resource Mobilization (Infrastructure Management for Enhancing Technical Skills and Managerial Effectiveness)

The short course in Infrastructure Management is an integrated US and international executive training program to support recent policy initiatives towards greater decentralization and resource mobilization. The short course is designed to provide expertise on specific aspects of planning, financing, and managing urban infrastructure services.

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Location

The short course involves two components: an in-country component and a US-based component.

• In-Country Short Course: a 10-day intensive program that focuses on urban management, planning and financing issues of relevance to local government. The target audience is expected to be government officials working at the national, provincial or district level. It is designed for groups of a minimum 17-20 participants to promote interactive teaching.
  
• Practitioners Institute Los Angeles: a two-week executive program designed to promote capacity building of planners and managers of urban infrastructure services. The Institute introduces innovations, facilitates comparative analyses of different approaches, and encourages networking. 5 persons from the in-country short course will be selected to attend the Institute. They will join with participants from many regions (Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Middle East).
  
  

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Topics

The following set of topics will be covered in the in-country short course. The topics can be modified to fit the priorities and issues of the host country:

• Decentralization and its implications for planning, financing and managing urban infrastructure services to strengthen functional responsibilities of local governments
  
• Resource mobilization strategies through improved taxation and user charges: economic incentives, potential implications and impacts of different strategies (ie, how will the consumption of services change under different pricing structures)
  
• Local revenue generation: What services should be taxed; what should not be taxed; how should taxes be structured; what are the incentives under different taxation structures
  
• Role of government versus the private sector in the provision and financing of urban infrastructure services, and the challenge to fostering partnership schemes between local government and private sector
  
• Targeting strategies for subsidies to the poor
  
  

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Program Fees

A typical fee structure is shown in Table 1. Depending on the country, the fees may vary slightly as shown.

Table 1. Fee Structure by Country

Fee Component	Thailand	Indonesia	Taiwan
Tuition Fee (1 Person)*	10,500	10,500	10,500
Direct Training Costs (estimate)**	38,000	45,000	25,000
Participant Travel and Accommodation (estimate)**	45,000	51,000	37,000

* Tuition Fee for in-country training program is for minimum participants of 17-20 persons. For in-country programs with payment in advance, at least two months prior to training implementation, we can offer discounted fee of US$9,995 per person. The Tuition Fee for the in-country program does not include the tuition fee for the Practitioners Institute of Los Angeles (limit 5 persons from each in-country program).

** The 'Direct Training Costs' and 'Participant Travel and Accommodation' estimates are based on participants of 17-20 persons, for in-country programs. The following would be the projected breakdown of such costs:

NOTE : For in-country programs with 35 or more participants, please contact Dr. Glenn Melnick (gmelnick@usc.edu) for advanced joint planning and development of a specific training module, targeted specifically towards the participants for maximum effectiveness.

Direct Training Costs (estimate)
Conference room reservations; secretariat room; rental of computer, printer, LCD projector, overhead projector; printing and binding of presentation materials; purchase of training supplies; daily refreshments; opening and closing receptions.	Sub Total	25,000
Participant Travel and Accommodation (estimate)
In Country - participant travel, hotel accommodation, per diem for the short course in (20 participants) = 20,000 US - participant travel, hotel accommodation, per diem, and local transport to/from airport for 5 participants to travel to Los Angeles = 17,000	Sub Total	37,000